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It’s a lucky seven for Twin Cities mystery writer Marilyn Jax’s latest novel. The Lakeshore Weekly newspaper has just published a story about the Minnetonka novelist's last book award win.

The Ploy, has been named winner of the Best Fiction category of the 2018 Best Book Awards and also Best Mystery in the Beverly Hills Book Awards. The book has also won recognition in five other award programs, including the Benjamin Franklin and Eric Hoffer awards. The Ploy begins with the death of protagonist Claire Caswell’s best friend in a horrific car crash in Miami. She refuses to believe the police findings that driver error was to blame, and is convinced that what happened to Charlotte was no accident.

So, Caswell and her longtime partner, Gaston “Guy” Lombard, set out on a painstaking investigation with only a hunch to go on and some seemingly random clues found at the crash scene. They soon learn Charlotte isn’t the only woman who bought a car at the same Miami Porsche dealer to die in an accident shortly after driving off the lot in her new vehicle. The plot thickens.

Jax says the story, which took a little more than two years to research and write, was inspired by a conversation she had with one of her fans who works in the automotive industry. “He had said to me, ‘You know, the person who manages the finance department at a car dealership gets so much information about a buyer, he or she can do major damage if they are unscrupulous.’”

The Ploy is the fifth book in the Caswell & Lombard series Jax kicked off in 2007 with the release of The Find, a story set in Miami, the Caribbean and London. Jax is also the author of Road to Omalos, set in Crete; Sapphire Trails, set in Montana; and Never in Ink, set in Italy, Switzerland and France. Combined, her novels have now won 32 national and international book awards.

“I am humbled to have received such amazing recognition for each book in my Caswell & Lombard series,” said Jax, who is currently hard at work on Book 6 in the series. I Heard Everything is set for release in 2019.
For more information about Marilyn Jax and her books, go to www.MarilynJax.com.

Twin Cities novelist Mary DesJarlais signed copies of her latest book, The Cutter’s Widow, at the Barnes and Noble at Calhoun Village in Minneapolis on Dec. 20. The novel, released late this summer by Calumet Editions of Edina, Minn., was inspired by articles the author had read about women who were hanged in Britain for murdering the infants in their care either through neglect or intentional act; and Marm Mandelbaum, New York City’s original “Mother of Crooks.”
In The Cutter's Widow, the protagonist is a young woman who becomes widowed at a young age and has to figure out how to support herself. Ella comes up with a creative solution: a baby selling business, and it leads to all kinds of trouble for her. The story is set in St. Paul in the early 1900s, and thanks to extensive research by the author offers an historically accurate portrayal of the time.
DesJarlais is also the author of Dorie LaValle, which is a novel about a woman anchored in poverty, childless and tied to someone she doesn’t love. More information about DesJarlais' work can be found at MaryDesJarlais.com.

With all the mass shootings in this country lately, there has been a lot of attention on mental illness as the likely cause; but not many people have talked about the possible origins of the crises. It is likely that many of the offenders had recognizable issues all the way back in their early childhoods.

Tressa Reisetter, Ph.D., a Twin Cities neuropsychologist, points out that when a child acts out, it isn’t necessarily to upset their caregivers or even to get attention, but because there is something going on in their brain neither of you understand.

“Sometimes kids just explode and people don’t know why. Sometimes it’s because they don’t get enough sleep. Sometimes it’s because they are not eating the right diet. There is an intimate relationship between nutrition and mental health,” says Reisetter, who adds that positivity also plays a role.

To help clear up the confusion a lot of people have about child behavior, Dr. Reisetter has written the book, Getting to Know Your Child’s Brain, released earlier this year by Calumet Editions of Edina, Minn.

A story about the book is in the Dec. 20 issue of the Press & News newspaper. Dr. Reisetter was also interviewed on WCCO Radio in Minneapolis about her book in the on Nov. 27.

Cathy Sultan, author, Damascus Street, helped 200 Main Art & Wine in Eau Claire, Wisc., launch a new “Women Writers on Wednesday” series the evening of Dec. 5. WEAU-Television, the NBC affiliate in Eau Claire, covered the event, which Sultan also previewed on Wisconsin Public Radio on late November.

At the event, Sultan discussed her latest novel, which is set in a Lebanon still struggling to cope with the political repercussions of a bloody 15-year civil war. In the story, Andrew Sullivan, an idealistic American physician, becomes the unknowing pawn in a deadly spy game where an intricate cast of characters lures him into a maze of deception and illusion. As he attempts to find and rescue his fiancée Nadia, who was kidnapped by Syria’s former Intelligence chief, this riveting political thriller takes surprising turns in a tale of lost innocence and survival.

The story is a sequel to The Syrian. Sultan has also written several nonfiction books about the Middle East and at the event explained the complexities of the Middle East, a place where nothing is as it seems.